SquadX is a coaching workspace for handball. You plan the season, build sessions from a drill library, run them at training, and follow how your players develop over time.
It is built around the coaching calendar rather than a feature list, because that is how a season actually runs. A Tuesday session. A Saturday match. A December slump you have to plan your way through. The product follows that rhythm instead of giving you another dashboard to keep up to date.
This article is the map. Read it first, then go deeper into the part you need.
You can start at any point in the season. Most coaches join mid-season, build one session, and work backwards into a full plan once they see how it fits together.
What SquadX is for
Three jobs, in the order most coaches meet them.
- Plan the season. A periodised structure that tells you what to train and when, so you are not deciding every Tuesday from scratch. The method behind it comes from Gintaras Savukynas, EHF Master Coach and head coach of the Lithuania national team.
- Build and run sessions. Pull drills from the Drill Library, arrange them into a session with timing, and open it on your phone at training.
- Follow your players. Attendance, performance notes and match numbers that feed back into what you plan next.
It does not replace your team-management app. If you use something for messaging and logistics, keep it. SquadX is the coaching layer on top.
The core loop
Everything connects in one cycle. Each step has its own area in the app, shown in the sidebar.
| Step | Where (sidebar) | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| Set up your team | Roster | Players, age group, positions |
| Build a season plan | Plan Library | Start from a periodised draft, then adjust |
| Build a session | Session Library | Turn drills into a timed session |
| Run it | Calendar | Open the session at training, with video on each drill |
| Track | Roster and Performance | Who showed up, how players are developing |
| Record matches | Match | Live or afterwards, numbers not drama |
| Back to the plan | Plan Library | What you saw on Saturday shapes Tuesday |
The loop closes on itself. What happens in a match becomes a signal for the next block of training, so the plan keeps tightening across the season instead of being written once and forgotten.
Where things live
Your planning tools sit under Library in the sidebar: the Plan Library, the Session Library and the Drill Library. Your squad and player development sit under Squad and Performance.
You do not need every player to download anything before you can start. On the player side, the phone app is where they RSVP to training, see the schedule, keep their profile and stay in touch with you. Players only ever touch the phone, and only the parts meant for them.
What to do first
If you have ten minutes:
- Open Roster and add your team. Name, age group, positions.
- Open the Drill Library and find five drills you already trust.
- Build one session from them in the Session Library, then open it on your phone at the next training.
That is enough to feel how it works. The season plan and player tracking are worth more over a full season, but they make the most sense once you have run a session or two and have something to react to.
The methodology is the product, not the volume of drills. Ten well-chosen drills used at the right moments will beat two hundred with no plan behind them. SquadX is built to curate, not to flood you.
How the planning help works
When you ask SquadX for a season plan or a session structure, it gives you a starting point based on your team's level, age group and the time you have on the court. You then change anything you want.
The structure is a draft to react to, never a decision made for you. The method behind it, and the final call, stay with you and with Gintaras's framework. SquadX takes care of the blank-page part. It does not coach for you.